Life During Wartime: Resisting Counterinsurgency

by Lara Messersmith-Glavin

Book Overview

"Together, the writers sound a sobering warning: the American government is an iron fist in a velvet glove whose purpose remains preserving the status quo and enriching the rich."-- Publishers Weekly

What happens when the techniques of counterinsurgency, developed to squash small skirmishes and guerrilla wars on the border of Empire, blend into the state's apparatus for domestic policing? In Life During Wartime, fifteen authors...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1849351309
• ISBN13: 9781849351300
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: AK Press
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 8.9"